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Hospital Clínico San Carlos

In research, Hospital Clínico San Carlos stands highest in Medicine (#976 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#1,309 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#2,618 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ophthalmology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Psychiatry and Mental health — Ophthalmology is 10.7× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#4,139
of 28,054 · #4,000 all time
Rank in Spain
#104
of 658
Research works
8.9k
▲ 11% vs 2013–17
Citations
129k
14.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
32%
world 28%

What is Hospital Clínico San Carlos known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
MedicineField #976 of 10,443 10.6%993 #746
Health SciencesDomain #1,309 of 11,982 10.6%1,049 #961
Life SciencesDomain #2,618 of 7,800 12.9%132 #2505
SurgerySubfield #704 of 1,816 10.0%147 #470
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #743 of 1,144 12.1%87 #822
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield #491 of 738 7.2%145 #387
Social SciencesDomain #7,390 of 10,521 13.9%71 #8607
EpidemiologySubfield #821 of 976 11.0%71 #1042
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #3,282 of 3,579 11.9%72 #3530

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Hospital Clínico San Carlos sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Medicine#746 #976
  2. Health Sciences#961 #1,309
  3. Life Sciences#2,505 #2,618
  4. Surgery#470 #704
  5. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#822 #743
  6. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine#387 #491
  7. Social Sciences#8,607 #7,390
  8. Epidemiology#1,042 #821
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#3,530 #3,282
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Hospital Clínico San Carlos specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ophthalmology takes 10.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. OphthalmologySubfield · 37.1 works11×
  2. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 144.6 works11×
  3. Psychiatry and Mental healthSubfield · 34.8 works5.4×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.04× its world share, 72 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.04× its world share, 27 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.29× its world share, 27 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.77× its world share, 4 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.12× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.07× its world share, 7 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.09× its world share, 17 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.10× its world share, 7 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.06× its world share, 3 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.11× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.81× its world share, 5 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.28× its world share, 44 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.99× its world share, 993 worksMedicineNursing: 0.93× its world share, 6 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.53× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.09× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.13× its world share, 5 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.27× its world share, 8 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.02× its world share, 40 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 13 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Hospital Clínico San Carlos?

Ranked on the composite score, Javier Escaned, Eduardo Díaz‐Rubio and Montserrat Fernández‐Rivas lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Hospital Clínico San Carlos.

  1. 1 Javier Escaned Spain · #6,514 worldwide 1.6k citations · 167 works
  2. 2 Eduardo Díaz‐Rubio Spain · #15,519 worldwide 573 citations · 67 works
  3. 3 Montserrat Fernández‐Rivas Spain · #24,480 worldwide 299 citations · 48 works
  4. 4 Manuel Serrano‐Ríos Spain · #51,390 worldwide 331 citations · 33 works
  5. 5 Miguel A. Rubio Spain · #57,252 worldwide 236 citations · 66 works
  6. 6 Javier Moreno Spain · #63,653 worldwide 324 citations · 42 works
  7. 7 Vicente Estrada Spain · #72,575 worldwide 363 citations · 34 works
  8. 8 Nicasio Pérez‐Castellano Spain · #78,035 worldwide 383 citations · 27 works
  9. 9 Rosana Hernández Spain · #79,018 worldwide 279 citations · 33 works
  10. 10 Carlos Macaya Spain · #79,461 worldwide 341 citations · 53 works
All ranked researchers at Hospital Clínico San Carlos

Which keywords describe research at Hospital Clínico San Carlos?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Treatment, Guidelines, Diagnosis, Heart Failure, Echocardiography, Myocardial Infarction and Inflammation.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology175▲ 3.4×117 topics
  2. Treatment77▲ 4.9×44 topics
  3. Inflammation70▲ 2.6×75 topics
  4. Diagnosis62▲ 5.1×37 topics
  5. Risk Factors53▲ 3.7×30 topics
  6. Guidelines51▲ 8.5×13 topics
  7. Heart Failure47▲ 8.4×13 topics
  8. Cardiovascular Disease44▲ 3.0×35 topics
  9. Echocardiography44▲ 12×8 topics
  10. Quality of Life43▲ 2.3×46 topics
  11. Myocardial Infarction42▲ 14×7 topics
  12. Obesity39▲ 4.0×21 topics
  13. Complications38▲ 5.9×16 topics
  14. Oxidative Stress37▲ 1.75×43 topics
  15. Cardiovascular Risk35▲ 8.7×9 topics
  16. Management35▲ 3.4×29 topics
  17. Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement34▲ 37×1 topic
  18. Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement34▲ 37×1 topic
  19. Chemotherapy34▲ 3.8×25 topics
  20. Clinical Practice Guidelines32▲ 4.6×14 topics
  21. Immunotherapy31▲ 3.3×19 topics
  22. Mortality30▲ 4.0×12 topics
  23. Genetic Mutations29▲ 5.2×22 topics
  24. Surgery29▲ 6.4×10 topics
  25. Clinical Trials28▲ 3.2×17 topics
  26. Genetics28▲ 3.1×16 topics
  27. Diabetes24▲ 3.8×17 topics
  28. Magnetic Resonance Imaging24▲ 7.1×5 topics
  29. Surgical Management23▲ 4.3×18 topics
  30. Atherosclerosis22▲ 6.1×11 topics
  31. Prophylaxis21▲ 13×4 topics
  32. Catheter Ablation21▲ 13×2 topics
  33. ACE2 Receptor20▲ 6.5×3 topics
  34. Cardiac Imaging20▲ 13×3 topics
  35. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention19▲ 11×4 topics
  36. Coronary Artery Disease19▲ 13×3 topics
  37. Glaucoma18▲ 9.6×4 topics
  38. Radiation Exposure18▲ 14×2 topics
  39. Optical Coherence Tomography17▲ 13×3 topics
  40. Chamber Quantification17▲ 17×1 topic

Which research topics does Hospital Clínico San Carlos publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments, Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors, Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics and Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics.

Cardiac Valve Diseases a…34Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 34 fractional worksCardiovascular Function and Risk Factors: 17 fractional worksCardiac Imaging and Diagnostics: 16 fractional worksCoronary Interventions and Diagnostics: 12 fractional worksAtrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes: 12 fractional worksCardiac pacing and defibrillation studies: 11 fractional worksInfective Endocarditis D…11Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management: 11 fractional worksCardiac Structural Anoma…10Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair: 10 fractional worksGlaucoma and retinal dis…10Glaucoma and retinal disorders: 10 fractional worksAcute Myocardial Infarct…10Acute Myocardial Infarction Research: 10 fractional works
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingSurgeryEpidemiology1 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 34 works
  2. 2 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 17 works
  3. 3 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 16 works
  4. 4 Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics Surgery 12 works
  5. 5 Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 12 works
  6. 6 Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 11 works
  7. 7 Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management Epidemiology 11 works
  8. 8 Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair Surgery 10 works
  9. 9 Glaucoma and retinal disorders Ophthalmology 10 works
  10. 10 Acute Myocardial Infarction Research Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 10 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world’s own shares — the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available32.5%not open67.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors11.0%domestic only89.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Hospital Clínico San Carlos's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 11% higher than in 2013–2017.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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